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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WASHINGTON, 25, D.C.
JUN
41945
My dear Mr. Latta:
On May 29, 1945, you advised this office that S. 938, "To provide
for emergency flood control work made necessary by recent floods, and
for other purposes, 11 had been received at the White House and requested
reports and recommendations as to the approval of the bill.
This legislation authorizes an appropriation of $12,000,000 as
an emergency fund for expenditure under the direction of the Secretary
of War, for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and
other flood-control works which have been threatened or destroyed by
recent floods, or which may be threatened or destroyed by later OC-
curring floods. Also, the War Production Board and other governmental
agencies are authorized and directed to provide for the necessary
allocations and priorities to enable farmers to replace and repair
their farm machinery and equipment destroyed or damaged by the floods
of 1944 and 1945.
Facsimiles of the enrolled enactment have been referred to the
War Department, the War Production Board, and the War Food Administra-
tion, and their replies are attached. The War Department recomnends
approval of the bill, and the War Production board in terposes no ob-
jection to its approval. The War Food Admini istration, while calling
attention to the cost, estimated at $500,000, of carrying out the
directive with respect to providing allocations and priorities on farm
machinery and equipment, likewise interposes no objection to the ap-
proval of the bill.
I am somewhat disturbed over the continuing character of these
so-called emergency measures to provide funds for the repair of flood
control works - this being the third successive measure of this char-
acter since 1943 - and over the possibility that the funds thus pro-
vided may come to be used for the ordinary "wear and tear" kind of
operation and maintenance repair work that the basi c flood control
acts of 1936 and subsequent years contemplated as being the proper ob-
ligation of the local interests benefited by the Federally constructed
projects. However, I am not now disposed to raise this question to
the extent of con sidering it a sufficient basis for a recommendation
of disapproval of the present bill. The expenditures to be made under
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